Family stories shared at program (Byline: Missy Rosenberry)
IN BRIEF: APH members Suzanne Lee and Taylor Whitney sponsor a multi-generational Show & Tell event for the public in Fairport, New York. → more

It is Time for Show & Tell ( pdf) (Byline: Klassy Kat Productions)
IN BRIEF: Do you remember bringing a treasured possession to"school and telling your friends why you loved it so much? Now everyone will have the chance to do the same at a Show & Tell event on Saturday, May
30 at Hayward Senior Center. → more

Personal History on Indie Bohemian Radio (Byline: Ron Placone & Paulina Combow with Deborah Wilbrink)
IN BRIEF: Hosts explore personal history with author Deborah Wilbrink & play advance tracks from Time To Tell Your Family & Personal History → more

Literary Lovestories - a collection of (Byline: Literary Lovestories - a collection of )
IN BRIEF: Nick Coffer, radio DJ at BBC Three Counties interviews Natasha Collins on her upcoming book requiring local couples to share their love story → more

"Keepers of Our Culture" ( pdf) (Byline: Patricia Hamilton)
IN BRIEF: Debut weekly newspaper column about the importance and benefits of writing your life story and preserving it for future generations. → more

Voices of Experience: What Can You Teach? (Byline: Deborah Wilbrink)
IN BRIEF: Deborah tells about a favorite teacher, and other school experiences. She then asks, "What lessons learned from life can you give to others?" Everyone has a unique perspective and could start today to leave it in personal history form. → more

Add Story to Your Family History ( pdf) (Byline: Deborah Wilbrink)
IN BRIEF: Genealogists and personal historians can use complementary skills for a more readable family history. How to find, attribute, and add story. Both professions quoted. Ran black & white, p. 36. → more

Memoir Writing Workshop at Ferndale Library April 23 (Byline: Ferndale Public Library Press Release)
IN BRIEF: The Ferndale Public Library will be hosting a free memoir writing workshop Wed., Apr. 23 from 7 pm to 9 pm as part of its Ferndale Reads 2014 program celebrating the book Annie’s Ghosts, by Steve Luxenberg. → more

Writing Your Own Obituary Is Your ‘Final Selfie!’ (Byline: Linda Lee)
IN BRIEF: Now that ‘selfies’ have become so popular, here’s your chance to leave one ‘final selfie‘ for people to remember you by! Instead of leaving it to your grieving family, more people are now writing their own obituaries. → more

Legacy Writers Helps Families Preserve Their History (Byline: unknown)
IN BRIEF: Bill and Lauren Farley have started a business to help individuals, families, corporations and communities research and preserve their histories.
→ more

App to help you gather family stories (Byline: Stephanie West Allen)
IN BRIEF: Because I believe the flow from ancestry to life to legacy is important—often extremely influential on how we live our lives and affect future generations… → more

The Sky’s the Limit for Local Author Janice Robinson ( pdf) (Byline: by Deborah Wilbrink)
IN BRIEF: 78-yr-old Jan Robinson adopted a stray kitten. She used her photos and to write and publish the true tale, "The Sky's the Limit, Adventures of McGee the Cat." She stays active teaching swimming, and is in a study group and writers circle. → more

Entrepreneur saving memories (Byline: unknown)
IN BRIEF: Life Story Film strives to document the lives of those in Dementia care to provide better insights to each patient - thereby increasing their quality of care. → more

App Review: Storycatcher (Byline: Liz Massey)
IN BRIEF: StoryCatcher is a wonderful development in the evolution of how we record, structure and save family histories. Users only need minimal technical ability with… → more

Elkins Native Revisits Roots in New Book (Byline: Beth Christian Broschart)
IN BRIEF: Stephanie Kadel Taras signs her new memoir and social history, Mountain Girls, at the bookstore in Elkins, West Virginia, where the book takes place. → more

Couple Brings Family Histories to Life (Byline: James Wood and Kate Thomas help Sarasota families )
IN BRIEF: Through a set of interviews and researched genealogy, the couple handcrafts clients' biographies in both print and multimedia formats. → more

Our story, in the hands of a pro (Byline: Families hire )
IN BRIEF: Ronda Barrett worked with the Lanning family to capture the story of 84 year old life long pilot James C. Lanning through film. → more

Who Inspires You? (Byline: Documentary reveals dancer's storied past)
IN BRIEF: Residents of Miller's Merry Manor Nursing Home gathered around the television to watch a special movie that featured dancing, world travel, and a love story. It was about the life of one of their residents, an English WWII War Bride named Peggy. → more

Nonprofit rescues family photos (Byline: Steve Lynn)
IN BRIEF: The Memory Preservation Coalition, a local not-for-profit has organized several Memory Rescue Centers to help Colorado flood victims rescue their photos. → more

Group saving photos of flood victims (Byline: Nick McGurk)
IN BRIEF: Reporting on the Memory Preservation Coalition volunteer efforts to rescue wet photos from the recent flood that damaged many homes and businesses. → more

A Violent Misunderstanding ( pdf) (Byline: Deborah Wilbrink)
IN BRIEF: The death of Lt.Andrew Wills Gould, C. S. A., stabbed in company quarters by his commander Nathan Bedford Forrest, is not only dramatic but illustrates 3 vital points about Nashville City Cemetery, Gould's final resting place. → more

Tennessee state chapter of APH Forms (Byline: unknown)
IN BRIEF: National APH members of Tennessee meet in Chattanooga to form a state chapter; what and why personal history? Open meet and greet too with Patricia West, Co-President details. → more

Life Stories (Byline: Peg Melnik)
IN BRIEF: Personal History Productions is featured in a story about the trend among older people of recording their life stories as a legacy for future generations of their families. → more

A video to remember loved ones (Byline: Janis Ramsay)
IN BRIEF: Barrie’s Debbie Marks has a passion for storytelling.
The former broadcaster has started her own business, Marks In Time, to interview and film those important stories in people’s lives. → more

Photo Recovery and Reuniting Efforts in Union Beach, New Jersey (Byline: Thomas MacEntee)
IN BRIEF: Recently Flip-Pal Cares sprang into action in Union Beach, NJ to help recover family photos that had washed up on the beaches after Hurricane Sandy. Here is a report from Gordon Nuttall, CEO of Couragent, Inc., makers of the Flip-Pal mobile scanner. → more

"All About Living" radio show (Byline: Carol Koby)
IN BRIEF: Stories are a wonderful way to bond with family members. Nurture your family ties, and build your memories as a gift to share over the holidays. Sarah White gives tips → more

Entrepreneur helps people to create video memoirs (Byline: By Nicki Cruickshank, Barrie Examiner)
IN BRIEF: Debbie Marks has learned how to capture history with a camera. Marks has started up Marks in Time, a Barrie business that captures people's history and milestones on film. → more

Simple Steps to Recording Great Vacation Stories (Byline: Sam Uhl)
IN BRIEF: Sam presented a new way of storytelling your vacation memories rather than trying to journal them. You'll capture the excitement and otherwise forgotten fun moments that make holidays such a pleasure. → more

Live Your Legacy to Leave Your Legacy (Byline: Sam Uhl)
IN BRIEF: How to think about your life from the perspective of looking back briefly to live forward fully, leaving a legacy of inspiration for future generations. → more

Eileen Kent guest on blogtalkradio.cnyurbanguy May 26, 2012 10:30am Eastern (Byline: unknown)
IN BRIEF: Hour long interview with cnyurbanguy Lou Barile on Personal History/APH and Stories of a Lifetime → more

Video Preserves history by telling stories of senior citizens (Byline: John Pitarresi )
IN BRIEF: Press coverage of film documentary premier of "Everyone Has a Story" Telling the Stories of Oneida County Seniors → more

Flax retiring after years at hospital (Byline: Laura Taylor)
IN BRIEF: After 36 years in the health industry, Mona Flax has retired from her job as Chief Development and Marketing Officer at Madison County Hospital to pursue something else entirely, Personal Histories. → more

2012 MSA Buyer's Choice Awards (Byline: unknown)
IN BRIEF: Personal History Tool Kit" designed by All About Memoirs has just won the top award (Education & Games) from the Museum Store Association (MSA) at the Museum Store Association's 2012 Conference and Expo. → more

Family Photo Dilemma (Byline: Mary Van Vliet)
IN BRIEF: Martie McNabb,APH member & founder of Memories Out of the Box,was interviewed by interior designer about how she helps clients tell the story of their lives using their photo & memorabilia archives. → more

Is History Only in Our Textbooks? (Byline: Debbie Brodsky)
IN BRIEF: Debbie Brodsky wonders if events aren't written about in textbooks, how will we learn the real stories and anecdotes about how life was actually lived? → more

In Their Own Words ( pdf) (Byline: Annie Payne)
IN BRIEF: Personal historian Annie Payne has been helping families record the stories of loved ones for years. Here, she shows why you, too, should record your memories of a lifetime. → more

It (Byline: Archiving Family and Business History)
IN BRIEF: Taylor Whitney, President and Founder of Preserving The Past, LLC is interviewed by Nannette Nocon, Private Wealth Advisor and host of It's About Money, a monthly TV show on a local Cable TV station in Penfield, NY. → more

How Ageism Affects Us All (Byline: Sam Uhl)
IN BRIEF: Our preconceived notions about what means to age can affect us as entrepreneurs in addressing one of the largest, growing populations in America, the Baby Boomers, who don't like to see themselves as aging! → more

Welcome Home ( pdf) (Byline: Annie Payne)
IN BRIEF: Preserving your own personal history for future family generations is just as important as researching your ancestors' lives. Perth-based professional storykeeper Annie Payne has a practical solution to remembering and documenting your child abode... → more

How Aging Affects Us All (Byline: Sam Uhl)
IN BRIEF: Sam takes you on a hands-on tour of what an aging body can suffer from and helps develop empathy and increases our ability to communicate with our elderly populations with greater effectiveness and compassion. → more

Make Yourself Useful! (Byline: Sam Uhl)
IN BRIEF: If you want to maximize your networking effectiveness, make yourself useful to others. Connect them to those who might help bring prospects, offer book or other suggestions. → more

Trade a Pink Slip for a Passion (Byline: Carrie Sloan)
IN BRIEF: Getting fired was the best thing that ever happened to these four women. Find out how an untimely layoff led each to a whole new career → more

Our Living Legacy ( pdf) (Byline: Annie Payne)
IN BRIEF: Most people have a selection of books about inspiring heros, and reference books but the don't have the stories from their own family yet. → more

Getting to the roots: Preserving family history leaves a lasting mark (Byline: unknown)
IN BRIEF: Journalist interviews APH members and highlights the benefits of having a professional help organize and preserve family memorabilia in various formats. → more

Member Chat (Byline: Mary Harrison)
IN BRIEF: Linda Coffin, long-time member of Minnesota Women in Marketing and Communications, is exploring an unusual business idea. She calls herself a personal historian. → more

Delve Into Your Family History (Byline: unknown)
IN BRIEF: Linda Coffin recently presented a workshop for the 3M Genealogy Club on the topic of saving the stories that go with your genealogy research. → more

Preserve your memories ( pdf) (Byline: Amy Emerson)
IN BRIEF: Family histories usually fade from collective memory when older generations pass, but that is something that Julie McDonald Zander trying to prevent. → more